The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio; Italian painter; 1441/2-1493; Courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

AccessArt is delighted to be working with Kate Noble, Alison Ayres and Holly Morrison, from the Fitzwilliam Museum Learning Team, to inspire primary school teachers, in and around Cambridge, to use the Museum Collection to support their pupils’ learning and creative development.

Art works created by children will be celebrated in an exciting exhibition of children’s art curated by the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2020; INSPIRE 2020!

To be able to submit work to the Inspire 2020 Exhibition, schools MUST have participated on the Inspire 2020 CPDTraining delivered by the Fitzwilliam Museum Education Team and AccessArt in the spring of 2019.

Inspire 2020 will celebrate the creative journeys and processes of both children and their teachers, and during the course of the Inspire 2020 Project, ongoing throughout 2019, will support schools in developing their creative approaches.

Modelled on the National Gallery, London’s, Take One Picture, we will take a deeper look at one painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum Collection, and from there make our own journeys and discovers.

Also, the collection of resources below will evolve over the duration of the Inspire 2020 Programme, and will be made up of a combination of existing AccessArt posts and new content created in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum and participating teachers, as the project develops.

Over the years we have created lots of strategies for starting new projects and moving ideas forwards using creative techniques and tools.

We’ll be here to guide you through the process!

Introduction for Participating Teachers and Educators

This post shares resources, creative prompts and outcomes from two parallel CPD sessions delivered by Kate Noble from The Fitzwilliam Museum (Education) and Sheila Ceccarelli (AccessArt) for Cambridgeshire teachers participating in Inspire 2020 Project. Using Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche as a starting point, teachers explore how art skills can be used for cross-curriculum learning and as a spring board for creative projects in the class room.

Kate Noble's Introductory PowerPoint Presentation

An introduction to Inspire 2020; The project’s aims and timeline; More about The Fitzwilliam Museum Education programme; More about Take One Picture; Guidelines for the Inspire 2020 Exhibition submission; What we’ll be looking for and top tips for the project.

Tools: Materials led Exploration

Conclusions

Inspire 2020 is not about static endings but about discovery, open experimentation and play.

The end point might just be a snap shot of a long process and not a final conclusion.

We hope that Inspire 2020 will give schools plenty of time and scope to play and find new avenues to explore, led by the children’s and teachers’, inspirations, fed by great art and hands-on creative processes.

We hope that along the way new skills and ideas will be cemented and creativity will be embedded as a resource to draw from for life.

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Coming Soon: Inspire 2020INSPIRE 2020 (10 December 2019 – 22 March 2020) will be the first exhibition of work made by primary school children in the Octagon Gallery atThe Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in collaboration with AccessArt.